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1) Shelter
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
3) Pop
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
4) Skellig
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
Author
Series
Howie Bowles adventures volume 1
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
8) A new Home
Author
Language
English
Description
Matt the squirrel has a new home, but misses his old friends.
9) Shoot-out
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jake must leave his championship soccer team to play on a team with a losing record when his family moves to a neighboring town.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As eleven-year-old Margaret struggles to find a way of coping with the hassles of a new stepfamily, she learns that her Gran is facing similar concerns after moving to a retirement community and becoming a widow.
Author
Publisher
Farrar
Pub. Date
1990,c1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
James's difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hollywood with his academic parents, eleven-year-old Mitch feels like an outsider in his school where everyone has connections to the powerful and famous in the entertainment industry, until he is cast in a soda commercial that launches a popular catchphrase.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1997,c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
New to town and homesick for his old life, fourth-grader Peter teams up with a classmate to earn money for a trip to his old hometown but all their moneymaking schemes have unexpected results.
16) I am number four
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Friendships and a beautiful girl are distracting to a teenager who is hiding on Earth while he waits to develop the powers he will need to rejoin the other six...
18) A dangerous love
Author
Series
Mercy and Eagleflight volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Mercy Randolph, at home in Sweetriver, Kansas, finds herself in the midst of danger moving as fast as a tornado. Meanwhile, Jeremiah must learn to deal with his new faith and his new love--while risking everything to save his nephew from enemies
19) Blood is thicker
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2007, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Hakeem Randall, already upset by his father's illness, and his family's move to Detroit, finds his anger reaching a boiling point when he is forced to share a bedroom with his moody and secretive cousin Savon, a childhood friend who soon becomes an enemy.
20) Solo Girl
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although she is good at math, Cass wishes that she could jump rope as well as the group she watches in her new neighborhood.